__________________"America represents something universal ...'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman..... 'Anybody.... can come to America to live and become an American.'"
--Ronald Reagan, 1988

"There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America. There’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America....We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States....”
--Barrack Obama, 2004